Pharmacy Ready To Help Build Up Prevention Efforts If the Federal Government implements policies reflecting the 2020 Summit's strong support for more action in the area of preventive
health, Australia's pharmacy profession is ideally placed to play a key role, according to Pharmaceutical Society of Australia President Brian Grogan. The 2020 Summit's
Health Stream released five "ambitions".
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comASHP, South Carolina Affiliate Oppose South Carolina Pharmacy Technician Legislation A bill that would increase the pharmacy technician-to-pharmacist ratio in South Carolina does not serve the public interest, the American Society of
Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) told members of the South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Committee in a letter urging the committee to refer Senate Bill 1156 back to the Medical Affairs Subcommittee for further study.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRTS Launches Solidprep System Enabling 90% Time Saving In Tablet Sample Preparation RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems, announces the launch of RTS SolidPrep, a groundbreaking new line of tablet sample preparation solutions. RTS SolidPrep provides high speed preparation of tablets and other solid dose pharmaceuticals for assay, impurity and dose content uniformity applications.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDrug Company Coalition To Push For Looser Rules On Off-Label Marketing Representatives of pharmaceutical companies are expressing support for loosening rules regarding drug companies' ability to market medications for off-label uses, the Wall Street Journal reports (Mundy, Wall Street Journal, 4/18).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPharmaceutical Innovation Platform Publication Describes Policies Which Encourage R&D For Innovative Medicines To Meet Essential Global Health Needs The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) is pleased to announce its new publication "The Pharmaceutical Innovation Platform: Meeting Essential Global
Health Needs". This explains innovative
medicines' contribution to improving
health worldwide, the complex process for creating them and the delicate policy balance which has permitted the creation of the vast range of
medicines in use today.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comVestara Launches EcoRexNS(TM) To Reduce Pharmaceutical Waste Pollution Vestara announced the launch of the EcoRexNS? Pharmaceutical Waste Management System, the first and only fully-automated, integrated system that allows
healthcare facilities to meet or exceed Federal regulations for pharmaceutical waste handling and prevent thousands of tons of waste
medicines from entering the U.S. water supply.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSen. Grassley Sends Letter To Merck Requesting Explanation Of Recent JAMA Reports Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to Merck Chief Operating Officer Richard Clark requesting the company explain a recent report that found the company used employees or paid consultants rather than the physicians listed as lead authors to write several published studies of the COX-2 inhibitor Vioxx, CQ
HealthBeat reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGovernment Of Canada Takes Action On Another Chemical Of Concern: Bisphenol A The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of
Health, and the Honourable John Baird, Minister of the Environment, announced that the Government is taking action to protect the
health of Canadians and the environment from another chemical of concern.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comASHP Comments On AHRQ Proposed Rule For Medical Error Reporting System ASHP recently submitted comments to the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recommending several changes to the agency's proposed regulation that establishes the structure for a system to voluntarily report medical errors and near misses.
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